Contesting ethnic immigration

Germany and Israel compared

Bibliographic Data

ID4180980
AuthorsC Joppke (0000-0002-4740-450X, Florence (Netherlands)), Zeev Rosenhek (0000-0001-8739-7378, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Year2002
Volume43
Issue3
Pages301-335
Publication date2002-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-9756 • E-ISSN: 1474-0583
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003975602001121
OpenAlexW2067232548
LanguageEN
Citations received49

After World War II, Israel and Germany adopted curiously similar policies of ethnic immigration, accepting as immigrants only putative co-ethnics. The objective of this article is to account for the main variation between the two cases, the resilience of Jewish immigration in Israel, and the demise of ethnic-German immigration in Germany. The very fact of divergent outcomes casts doubt on conventional accounts of ethnic immigration, which see the latter as deriving from an ethnic (as against civic) definition of nationhood. We point instead to the possibility of 'liberal' and 'restrictive' contention surrounding ethnic immigration, and argue that for historical and geopolitical reasons the political space for such contention has been more constricted in Israel than in Germany

Demise · Development economics · Economics · Ethnic group · Ethnic nationalism · Family reunification · Geography · Geopolitics · German · Immigration · Immigration policy · Judaism · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Central European national history · German legal, social, and political studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law

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